Digger: When Disaster Struck
Tom Cruise. Photo: Warner It’s not often that a box-office bomb this big becomes the season’s mest talked-about and debated film, but that’s what happened with Digger. Critics were divided,…
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
The eighth film in this franchise is a direct sequel to Dead Reckoning, where Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team must find a way to stop that mysterious AI…
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) tries to retrieve one half of a key that, in its complete state, has the ability to control a dangerous new AI called ”the Entity”. The…
Mission Impossible Fallout: Under Hunt’s Skin
Photo: Paramount In my original review of the first movie in this franchise, I wrote that it’s underappreciated. I still consider it the best chapter of the series, but here…
The Mummy
When a mysterious tomb is found in Iraq, the military brings it to London… and it is soon revealed to contain the mummy of an Egyptian princess who made an…
Eyes Wide Shut
After attending a Christmas party that results in an argument with his wife (Nicole Kidman), New York doctor Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) leaves their apartment and is ultimately tempted to…
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
As the IMF is about to be shut down by the government, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) goes on the lam from the CIA and tries to prove the existence of…
Born on the Fourth of July: All Quiet on the Southeastern Front
Tom Cruise. Photo: Universal It took a while for me to realize that the date I revisited this film on Bluray was indeed July 4th. This tale from the Vietnam…
Rain Man: Escaping a Bubble
Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. Photo: MGM 1988 and 1989 were awkward years for the Academy Awards. It's not like there weren't any brilliant movies released, it's just that the…
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is sprung from a prison in Russia by his IMF colleagues, but when a subsequent mission is botched and a bomb destroys the Kremlin, Hunt's team…